PPP - Restarting! See the other thread!

[DrPraetorious]

Let's do it! Who wants to host?

Okay, we have 12 players and Baalz is an alternate if someone drops out.

Teams:
TheNotoriousDoctorPraetorious, Hadrian II - Mictlan/Abysia
Shovah32, Lingchih - Pythium/Marignon
Foodstamp, Baalz - Ermor/Agartha
Revolution, BigDisAwesome - Man/R'lyeh
Peacekeeper, Aezeal - Patala/C'tis
Kristoffer, Quantum Mechanic - Atlantis/Bogarus

Introduce yourselves and start familiarizing yourselves with your nations if needbe. You can trade positions with other players if it is mutually agreeable.

Themes:
LOOK TO THE SKIES! - Man, R'lyeh
IT'S COLD, THERE ARE WOLVES AFTER ME - Atlantis, Bogarus
THE GIRLS ARE MINE - Mictlan, Abysia
THE SUN ALSO SETS - Ermor, Agartha
HOT LIZARD LOVE - Patala, C'tis
WEAR SILLY HATS OR ELSE - Pythium, Marignon

Following teams not in use :
HAVE STEEL, WILL TRAVEL - Ulm, Pangaea
1. DEATH MAGIC, 2. ?, 3. PROFIT! - Caelum, Utgard
THE SUN ALSO RISES - T'ien Ch'i, Jomon
PROCESS OF ELIMINATION - Midgard, Arcoscephale

Team Assignment and Map:
Players will be randomly assigned to teams, this means:
a) Each player will be assigned to a team.
b) Each team will have two players assigned to it.

So both nation assignment and ally assignment is random. Or we could do fixed teams, if people prefer.

Then, each team will be assigned to two nearby start locations, either by me or the host.

Within each team, you can work out for yourselves who gets which nation and which start location.

If we are doing random assignment like last time - you can name up to two people (SECRETLY PLEASE! SEND ME A PM!) with whom you do *not* wish to be paired. You can also specify two of the nation pairs above which you do *not* wish to play.

I assume that we want LA R'lyeh (it isn't really a LA game without them!) so there will be water on the map.

I will scatter start locations on that map before assigning teams, or teams to start locations.

IP or E-mail:
Right now I have 1 person who can't play via IP, and 2 who can't play via e-mail, so I think IP wins atm.

Settings:
Graphs Off, Renaming On, otherwise standard.

Mods:
We will use some kind of hotfix mod, as provided by Edi for v3.15. Even if we don't actually need it, it allows for fixes to be hot-patched in when new patches come out. Can Agartha bless their undead units right now?
Other than hotfixes the mod will not make any changes.

Players so Far:
The Notorious Doctor Praetorious
Shovah32 (prefers IP)
Foodstamp
Revolution
Peacekeeper
Hadrian II
Kristoffer
Quantum Mechanic
Aezeal (declines Ermor, R'lyeh)
Lingchih (IP only)
Coobe (IP only)
BigDisAwesome

maybe....
ano?
zeldor?
llamabeast?
lch?
dryaUnda?
real_fiend (e-mail only)
whollaborg (e-mail only)

[Shovah32]

I'm definitely interested. Haven't decided on which team I would like though.

[ano]

I like the idea very much but unfortunately two big games eat all my time.
Btw, I don't understand why you already divided nations into teams? If the purpose is to disallow "strong" alliances, it might be better to provide some restrictions. Or do I misunderstand something?

[Foodstamp]

This sounds like fun, count me in

[llamabeast]

I'd be very happy to host, if you'd like.

[lch]

DrPraetorious said:
Let's do it! Who wants to host?

I can host if you want a non-PBEM game.

[DrPraetorious]

ano - there was much discussion of this in previous team games, and it was decided that this was the best way to balance it. The teams generally pair weaker nations with stronger ones, or pairs of average nations, and try to be somwhat respectful of the background story.

In previous games, people have been assigned to teams at random.

Okay, llamabeast will host when we have a quorum. I'm not in any particular rush to start, but we don't want to wait so long that people forget about the game and lose interest

EDIT: Or lch can host . We'll put it up to a vote for PBEM vs IP. I'm completely agnostic on the subject.

[Lingchih]

I will play, but not on a PBEM server. No offense Llamabeast, I just do not play PBEM. My reasons are complicated, and deal with receiving email on my Mac, but playing on my PC.

[Real_friend]

In case you will solve to play on llamaserver, I would take bogarus. If you solve not - ignore this message, I have email access only.Any non-standard ports are firewalled, unfortunately.

[Revolution]

Your awesome team names alone are enough to make me want to get in on this.